{"id":1735,"date":"2025-01-29T11:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T09:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/lei\/?p=1735"},"modified":"2025-01-29T11:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T09:21:09","slug":"factivity-of-verbs-and-adjectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/2025\/01\/29\/factivity-of-verbs-and-adjectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Factivity of verbs and adjectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>List of verbs and adjectives and their factivity (according to Hooper 1975: 92)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0factive\n<ul>\n<li>assertive (semi-factive)\n<ul>\n<li>find out<\/li>\n<li>discover<\/li>\n<li>know<\/li>\n<li>learn<\/li>\n<li>note<\/li>\n<li>notice<\/li>\n<li>observe<\/li>\n<li>perceive<\/li>\n<li>realize<\/li>\n<li>recall<\/li>\n<li>remember<\/li>\n<li>reveal<\/li>\n<li>see<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>non-assertive (true factive)\n<ul>\n<li>regret<\/li>\n<li>resent<\/li>\n<li>forget<\/li>\n<li>amuse<\/li>\n<li>suffice<\/li>\n<li>bother<\/li>\n<li>make sense<\/li>\n<li>care<\/li>\n<li>be odd<\/li>\n<li>be strange<\/li>\n<li>be interesting<\/li>\n<li>be relevant<\/li>\n<li>be sorry<\/li>\n<li>be exciting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>non-factive\n<ul>\n<li>assertive\n<ul>\n<li>weak assertive\n<ul>\n<li>think<\/li>\n<li>believe<\/li>\n<li>suppose<\/li>\n<li>expect<\/li>\n<li>imagine<\/li>\n<li>guess<\/li>\n<li>seem<\/li>\n<li>appear<\/li>\n<li>figure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>strong assertive\n<ul>\n<li>(a)\n<ul>\n<li>acknowledge<\/li>\n<li>admit<\/li>\n<li>affirm<\/li>\n<li>allege<\/li>\n<li>answer<\/li>\n<li>argue<\/li>\n<li>assure<\/li>\n<li>certify<\/li>\n<li>charge<\/li>\n<li>claim<\/li>\n<li>contend<\/li>\n<li>declare<\/li>\n<li>divulge<\/li>\n<li>emphasize<\/li>\n<li>explain<\/li>\n<li>grant<\/li>\n<li>guarantee<\/li>\n<li>hint<\/li>\n<li>hypothesize<\/li>\n<li>write<\/li>\n<li>imply<\/li>\n<li>indicate<\/li>\n<li>insist<\/li>\n<li>intimate<\/li>\n<li>maintain<\/li>\n<li>mention<\/li>\n<li>point out<\/li>\n<li>predict<\/li>\n<li>prophesy<\/li>\n<li>postulate<\/li>\n<li>remark<\/li>\n<li>reply<\/li>\n<li>report<\/li>\n<li>say<\/li>\n<li>state<\/li>\n<li>suggest<\/li>\n<li>swear<\/li>\n<li>testify<\/li>\n<li>theorize<\/li>\n<li>verify<\/li>\n<li>vow<\/li>\n<li>write<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>(b)\n<ul>\n<li>agree<\/li>\n<li>be afraid<\/li>\n<li>be certain<\/li>\n<li>be sure<\/li>\n<li>be clear<\/li>\n<li>be obvious<\/li>\n<li>be evident<\/li>\n<li>calculate<\/li>\n<li>decide<\/li>\n<li>deduce<\/li>\n<li>estimate<\/li>\n<li>hope<\/li>\n<li>presume<\/li>\n<li>surmise<\/li>\n<li>suspect<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>non-assertive\n<ul>\n<li>non-negative\n<ul>\n<li>be likely<\/li>\n<li>be possible<\/li>\n<li>be probable<\/li>\n<li>be conceivable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>negative\n<ul>\n<li>be unlikely<\/li>\n<li>assert<\/li>\n<li>be impossible<\/li>\n<li>be improbable<\/li>\n<li>be inconceivable<\/li>\n<li>doubt<\/li>\n<li>deny<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hooper [Bybee], Joan. 1975. <em>On assertive predicates. <\/em>In John P. Kimball (ed.), Syntax and semantics, vol 4, 91\u2013124. New York: Academy Press. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1163\/9789004368828_005\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1163\/9789004368828_005<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>List of verbs and adjectives and their factivity (according to Hooper 1975: 92) \u00a0factive assertive (semi-factive) find out discover know learn note notice observe perceive realize recall remember reveal see non-assertive (true factive) regret resent forget amuse suffice bother make sense care be odd be strange be interesting be relevant be sorry be exciting non-factive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1736,"href":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions\/1736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}